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Here Are the Best Damn Photos From Pres Obama’s Alaska Trip
On Friday morning, Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza posted a dazzling array of photos from President Obama‘s recent trip to the northernmost state of Alaska.
“The trip was intended to highlight the important issue of climate change,” he writes at the White House’s Medium page, but notes that “it was a chance to photograph the President in some amazing scenic settings in four different cities and towns.”
Sure enough, of the dozens of photos selected and posted by Souza and fellow photojournalist Chuck Kennedy, many feature the unique settings presented by Alaska’s environment. However, politics and rabble rousing aside, the gallery includes some of the funniest, goofiest, and downright frightening photos of Obama that I’ve ever seen.
Like the true American patriot who greeted Obama on the tarmac in Anchorage. I want that suit. I need that suit:
More pics at link: Media
Like the true American patriot who greeted Obama on the tarmac in Anchorage. I want that suit. I need that suit:
Or the moment Obama realized that, even in this far removed from the contiguous United States, he’d still have to deal with an endless array of smartphones and selfies:
Babies loved him:
Adults wanted to give the president some heavily-stereotyped-yet-traditional Alaskan sugar:
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That a president of the US would have that much grace and aplomb and fun is astounding to me. He is as comfortable with everybody as he is with himself.
President Obama is a real class act.
I want to see more... (I know. Google's my friend.)
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And the president's facial expression in that shot...
I almost posted that one, too, but instead I posted this one.
Is that in Alaska too?! Looks like Hawaii. 
that the fish was just happy to see him!? 
He is such an all around good man. I love his sense of humor and the way he pokes fun at himself.
